Tag: Murder
Poisons are a potent tool for murder in fiction – a...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals...
Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions...
Alex McCourt, Johns Hopkins University
The killing of five patrons in a Colorado LGBTQ bar on Nov. 19, 2022,...
More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in...
When families of murder victims speak at death penalty trials, their...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this...
I track murder cases that use the ‘gay panic defense,’ a...
W. Carsten Andresen, St. Edward's University
On January 21, New Jersey became the ninth state in the nation to ban the gay panic defense, a...
How to distinguish a psychopath from a ‘shy-chopath’
John Edens, Texas A&M University
What makes a criminal a psychopath?
Their grisly deeds and commanding presence attract our attention – look no further than...
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes,...
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 24, 2014, police...
In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
Beginning June 16, moviegoers will be able to see the much-anticipated “All Eyez on Me,” the biopic of...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
